return from 'hiatus' ...

Soooooo long since I've been in the 'blogging world'! I do have a pretty good reason and I'm hoping it gets better from here on out ;) I am going to {slowly} catch up the last 9 months but it's more for my record keeping than anything! For now I will just post what I can starting now ...


So to give a quick recap of the last 9 months we pretty much have just been getting ready for this little bundle of joy that is coming in the next couple days! I've been super sick this whole pregnancy which has been a change from the other 2 ... Bay and Bos {and Tone} have been really patient with me though!


So starting with me ... the obvious, I'm pregnant and due any day now ... I turned 30 in March {which was a big milestone} Tone got me a puppy I've been so glad that she has been adjusting really well to our family! We named her Foxxy and she's the cutest little dog! I'm still in the YW and love every minute! I have great girls and I love the ladies I serve with too! It's alot of time but so worth it :) Bay thinks she's part of the group too which is fun! Around the house ... I've been cleaning, changing rooms around and doing the normal 'nesting' stuff! I worked for my dad one day a week through tax season and that was really nice to be able to help out! Tone made his schedule work to take the kids that day and it was good for them to have a 'daddy day'.


Tone started doing some financial planning with his mission president at the first of the year and teamed up with my dad to help his clients where he can too. That has been awesome for us ... he's taken off with it and he's now getting super busy with the construction biz again! We all are just trying to keep pace with him which is a task! He's been doing p90x faithfully and running 4 times a week to get ready to run Ragnar in June ... He's a machine right now and I appreciate all he's been doing for our fam!


Baylee has been in pre-school and learning sooooo much and loving it! She goes to the Little Brick SchoolHouse with her cousin Charly and it's made her grow up so fast! She's quite the artist and loves to draw and write and amazes me daily in what she knows. Also in my re-arranging, I moved Bay and Bos in a room together and they have bunk beds and LOVE sharing a room! now Lil Miss Bella will have Bays room for her nursery ;) She's a great big sister and can't wait to have this baby here!


Boston is more boy than ever ... He proves daily he is his daddy's boy ;) he is always in the dirt and wanting to be on a bike or 4-wheeler. Tone takes him to work with him every once in a while too and he loves to be on the job by tractors, tools and all the 'man' stuff! It's fun to see his personality come out more and more as he is growing up way too fast! He is my little snuggler and I know he'll be so glad when I can hold him better again without this big belly getting in the way! lol!


Well, that's about it in the short version ... I feel like we are continually blessed and lucky to have each other! I had April take some pics the other day for me before I lose this lovely belly and she sent me a sneak peak of one of them today! She is so talented and I'm sooooo glad she captured this time for me! I'll leave you with this cute picture and can't wait to see more and meet Bella in person real soon!

happy 29th birthday tone!!! {july 12th}

wow!! 29 years! how fast that goes by! :) we had a great day of celebrating! because tone's birthday fell on a sunday this year he got a new tie for church along with other gifts! baylee was so cute to help him get all his stuff opened first thing this morning! and then off to church we went!


we had my family all over for a birthday dinner after ... thanks to everyone who helped bring food, it was a feast! we had roast, mashed potatoes, salad, rolls, and homemade ice cream and cake for dessert! it was great!

we love you tone/dad and hope you had a great, great day!!

4th of july parade and the "jo bros"!!!! {july 4th}

we absolutely try to cram every possible thing in on the 4th! it is the funnest day but a little long and by the end it feels like we've lived 3 days in one! :) we started out this morning running the 5k in kaysville ... we have been running 4 days a week to be in pretty good shape and we did pretty good! it is a really fun tradition ... there's always a huge turnout and this year we ran with april, dustin, savanah, wyatt, sarah, becca and brent {that was the fam but there were other friends there too!}



after that my mom met us with bay and bos and we went up to the breakfast where dad cooks for the whole town ... he's been in charge of this for 30 years now and does a great job!






we headed down to main street from here and got ready for the parade! the kaysville parade is the greatest and the water section is always so fun ... this is the first year in a long time that tone sat with us instead of in the parade throwing water! the kids had a blast getting soaked and getting candy, beads, toys ... they all got a ton of stuff!





{thanks april for the pics ... rip my nikon d50 and yay for getting my new camera in provo later today!}

we were able to get a little nap in and headed off to p-town for the stadium of fire! our cute friends brady and brandon got us great tickets on the field and we had a blast with a huge group of our friends there! baylee was soooo excited because among glenn beck and shedaisy was the jonas brothers! she watches their show faithfully and knows all about kevin, nick and joe ... she got an awesome red, white and blue 'jonas' shirt just for the occasion! Brandon's cute mom val had gotten a v.i.p. pass and took each of the girls up to the front row by the stage for a song! bay was in heaven and kept saying she danced on stage with the jo-bros! lol! it was a great night!

{thanks chavez fam! we love you guys!!}

happy independence day! we are truly blessed to live in a land under god!

Oquirrh Mtn Temple open house {june 30}

we've been doing alot of temple activities with our youth this year and it just worked out that this tuesday night boston got to be my date for the evening ... it was a beautiful temple and we had a great time going through it! this was boston's first temple to go through and he really liked the water fountains outside :) he was busy as normal but with the help of bishop and the girls, keeping him occupied was an easy task!

Manti Pageant {june26-27th}

we had a great time at youth conference this year! we were able to stop at the new draper temple on our way down to manti friday morning and do baptisms for the dead, which was a neat experience! we then made it down to the manti city park where our camp was all set up thanks to bishop, tone and ben :) {tone volunteered to come help us out and as it would have it they were able to get quite a bit of riding in which was fun for them too!}

here's a few pics playing games and hanging out while the boys were grilling us a great dinner!

i didn't get any pictures from the pageant itself ... i was afraid of the rain ruining my camera however ... it was so awesome and the weather ended up holding out with no rain! we had a short night and got up early to do a service project weeding and replanting bulbs at the manti temple. it was a great trip and we were all a little tired coming home ... here's what my car looked like ... lol!

thanks jess and ty for watching the kiddos too so we could go enjoy this with our youth :)

Father's Day! {june 21st}

happy father's day! anthon is the best dad to baylee and boston and we are sooooo grateful for all he does for us! he is the best to play with, wrestle with, bike with or swing on swings with :) {as you'll see!}

we went to my mom and dad's for the day for a great bbq and spent time with the whole fam! we spent alot of time on the swingset that anthon built for my parents ... go big or go home! it's huge and we can all get swinging way high and it isn't going anywhere! it's awesome! the kids of all ages love it! we had a great day and are so thankful for all the good men in our lives ... dad, papa and grandpa arlo ... we love you!!

Mom and Dad B. visit {june 17-21}

mom and dad burbidge got to come down for a little visit and brought maddy too :) it was {i'm sure} to visit us kids mostly, but it helped that tanner and taylor were getting married too!

we all went to the roy aquatic center for the day on friday ... we had a blast!! the kids loved the slides and tone took boston on the {big} slide too! we had a great day in the sun!









so, i really bombed on pics from everything else but i did get one pic from tanner's wedding reception with him, dallin, haley and lynsie ...

it was beautiful and reagan did an awesome job putting it all together!

we {love} having the family all together and this trip was as good as any other ... wish it was more frequent but it was great!